India develops one Tflop supercomputer

January 1 2003

India's Centre for Development of Advanced Computing has developed a one teraflop High Performance scalable computing cluster.

It is one of the PARAM range of supercomputers developed by the centre and has been named the PARAM Padma. In Indian mythology, Padma stands for 10 to the power of 12. One teraflop or 1000 Gigaflops is a trillion floating point operations per second.

The Padma has 250 processors and boasts 500,000 mtops (million theoretical operations per second). It was developed at a cost of Rs 500 million ($A20 million) over four years by 200 scientists.

Two technologies that control the teraflop machine have been indigenously developed - the interconnect Switch - PARAMNet II, and all the systems software tools including management, debugging, compiling and engineering solutions.

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